Chargers, Kavanaugh and the gas tax repeal in Top Comments this week

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers reacts along the sidelines during the second half of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Carson.

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers reacts along the sidelines during the second half of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Carson. (Getty Images)

U-T Letter writers

Lightly edited comments from our online coverage.

Re “Neither side ready to rest after Kavanaugh confirmation” (Oct. 9): How about this … win the House and follow the Republicans’ lead — oppose anything the deceiver in chief proposes, compromise on nothing, and pass bills that authorize single-payer health care, a $15 federal minimum wage and citizenship for the Dreamers over and over and over again to pander to our base. Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s put Social Security and Medicare on solid financial ground by increasing the country’s taxable work force through increased legal immigration.

I like your ideas and hope the Dems campaign on each and every one of them. That will assure the Dems are on the outside looking in for another four years. The people have spoken and that is why the Dems lost so many offices during Obama’s term and why the GOP now controls the vast majority of local, state and national posts.

Re “Would an all-county vote have saved the San Diego Chargers?” (Oct. 11): It’s multiple combinations of a perfect storm, the root of the problem? Cheap, cheap, cheap ownership who have no business owning an NFL team. The NFL and all the rest of the greedy owners didn’t help any by not stepping in and doing more to help alleviate a dysfunctional San Diego political climate and a fellow inferior owner. The San Diego fans deserved better and the NFL, Dean Spanos, and San Diego politicians all let down one of the greatest fan bases that supported the Chargers and NFL for 56 years. This was never about a vote, even though a county-wide would have proven more support, but about the NFL and Spanos’ greed. The only hope and redemption San Diego has left is for the Chargers to fail miserably in Los Angeles. How anyone who is a true San Diegan can still root for the Chargers in rival land is beyond comprehension.

The county doesn’t get to tell the cities what to do on their land, on things like that, especially if they aren’t going to pay for it. Any other city could have paid for a new stadium (Lemon Grove Chargers?) and tried to get the team to move there, but they smartly declined to get into that money pit that we San Diegans found ourselves in.

I agree with the letter writer, the vote should have gone county-wide. The Board of Supervisors was even willing to put up money that didn’t require a taxpayer vote. It appears that Spanos didn’t really want that and really wanted to move by having the vote in San Diego only.

I don’t agree with the letter writer in her confidence that the Chargers would still be here. I’m not sure that the vote would have been any different.